[John B. Jameson--home movies] Reel 10

Date1927

Can DescriptionsTransfer from 16 mm. film originally done as Tech Services job, 2002. Job #02-009.

Donor-supplied Notes1927 Joplin Mo. Zinc & Lead Dist. Okmulgee & Enid Okla. Champlin Refining Co.

Viewing NotesBlurry out of focus shot of circus parade around an open field. Many African American families. Two white children. African American band with trombone. White barker or ticket taker. Big Show Main Entrance tent. Bagpipers in front of “Christie” show canvas. About a dozen adults and children in American Indian Western dress. One or two look at camera. The performers arranged against canvas, small children, one baby on mother’s back. They leave through flap in canvas. Sideshow canvases, pan. Visitors in foreground. Nice coverage of a show but not entirely in sharp focus. Okmulgee? 17:26 large barn and riding ring man in hat, tie, vest mounts horse. He and another man ride off. Fence and small buildings in background. Child on fence, with parents. Two men ride off down dirt drive. African American sit along edge of porch. Riders return. Man rings bell on high tower with a rope. Mules by bell tower and barn. One-story house with long screen porch, three adults and dog walk to camera. Toddler comes in screen lower left. More views of mules, barn with people hanging around and on slat fence. Portly man holds child by hand and walks next to man in a suit. (Could be Herbert Hiram Champlin (1868-1944)?) View of house side wing and shed behind it. Very good sense of homestead with workers building on edge of long drive. Pan continues across open land. Brief accidental shot of ground. Workers cabin with two doors and two windows, single chimney on end. Man steps off porch and comes toward camera. Pan of land with a single tree in foreground and another dead tree. Another pan of cabin, shack and quickly across land with trees in distance. Couple in town by car; shot of leg. View of railway depot, tank cars. Petroleum. Petroleum tanks. Long pan past tanks to scrubby trees. Closeup of factory, smokestacks, railway tank cars and puddle in foreground. Closeup of Champlin Refining Petroleum Products sign on tank. Very dark shot of men (unusable). Long row of ceiling lights. [Notice “Skipping over damaged area” on DVD.] CU adults. Long view cows in field looking at camera and then walking. Not well focused. Pan to wire fence. Car on dirt road. More cows 27:09 Men leading camels down street in parade with Haman Shoes sign on department store in background. 27:17 Camera upside down car going into garage? High contrast.